On Wed, Sep 23, 2015, at 20:47, Tim Peters wrote: > [Alex] > > I added a method to datetimetester [1] to compute some overall statistics on > > tzfiles. My code ignores "version 2" data, so I include only transitions > > that fall within 32-bit time_t (1900 to 2038 range). > > From staring at zic.c, looks like (so far) the data in the version 2 > section is identical to that in the version 1 section, except written > out in wider data formats. The pretty clear intent is that they never > intend to generate explicit transitions beyond 2037 in any version,
They do have transitions for before 1901, though. > > I think this is best we can do on Windows > > where (IIRC) mktime does not work for times before epoch. (What about > > localtime?) Windows has its own mechanism for storing timezone information, not tzdata, but no, none of the MSVCRT functions work for times before 1970. _______________________________________________ Datetime-SIG mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/datetime-sig The PSF Code of Conduct applies to this mailing list: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
